And before this thread floats into oblivion.......

I just want to say that I hate racisim.....and I especially hate bigots who feel a need to relate to me on some level just to qualify their ignorance and hatred.........when we know damn right well we are of one race................HUMAN........and I'll never tolerate a joke, or slur, or reference of ignorance just because I'm in a public forum! I've had people try and tell jokes to me.....and when I realize what it is they are doing....I stop them dead in their tracks and tell them they should know who they are talking to before they continue the thought....and I proceed to tell them about me and my opinions (because they didn't care to find out my feelings.......and just because I am white.....figure I'll laugh at their shit talk). I've been at parties with my best friend's parents (big, big bigots) and I've never backed down from my principals....and they tend to think I am a party pooper when the jokes and inuendos begin to fly.......but I am me and I won't let them drag me down to their level!

I've just barely made it into the millenium...(ie: I just got a DVD player and a turntable in my microwave oven)....but I'll be damned that if..... in this day and age.....with all the struggle of disease and global warming and hunger and strife (housing, starvation..etc.)....you can bring me back to the days when we bitch that because your skin is not my color...I will discriminate against you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So call me a bigot..........because I hate bigots!

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